/lit/ - Literature

Stealing is ugly.
Walking in to a book shop and purchasing a beautiful book is not.

>>7134085
It is about Class paralysis.

"a sense of fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth."

>I can't afford to buy bread to feed my sick child
This really angers me.
They should die in silence

>>7132776
Well, they asked the question so evidently there is some sort of interest involved.
Night.

Whoever asked that question,
I have to sleep now so if you respond I will not be here to receive a response.
Night.

>>7132740
>beauty, like kindness, is an act of will and not some external thing
Kindness is beautiful.
Beauty is not an act of will, kindness is an act of will.

I do not conflate them,
one is a category and one is an "act of kindness".

I have to go to bed.
I do not know why "Twiggy" is deleting their posts.
Night.

>>7132725
...no?

>>7132701
Ada is more about TIME, though.

>>7132694
Thank you.

>>7132682
Why do you hate me, though?
Why do you claim I am cruel when in fact you are the one who is proving themselves to be just that?

>>7132666
>I am confused, do you think we can either live beautiful cruel lives or live ugly kind lives?
This is my answer to any thing of the nature.
All I can say is they have an unfortunately perverse view of things and would prefer if we could have a nice conversation as opposed to the opposite,
if I was the person they were referring to.

>>7132652
If you are referring to me,
I never said I am an orthodox "Nietzschean".

>>7132640
Why do you hate me?

>>7132641
Forgot my tripcode.

>>7132549
If you would like to extrapolate, then do,
but for now it appears as an unnecessary perversion to me and I have no time for perversions.

>>7132531
If given the choice, then why would you not furnish your room with beautiful furniture?

Again, the question is unnecessarily perverse.
I know Beauty and I would like to live a beautiful life,
so I improve as opposed to not and sacrifice where said sacrifices need to occur.

>>7132494
>Ugliness is an evil? Then all humanity is evil
Have you considered you unnecessarily choose to refrain from constructing intellectual dichotomies?
If you can't hate Ugliness, then you can't love Beauty.

>>7132490
But do you not have any notion of self-improvement or sacrifice?
For what reason do you live but for that?
Are you aware of Faust?
For me Faust is more than Nietzsche,
my personal favorite adaptation of the legend being doctor Faustus, not Goethe's, contrary to popular choice, but Thomas Mann's, which I am currently re-reading.

>>7132362
Isn't that the Matterhorn in Zermatt?
I have been there. Quite nice.

>>7132310
I don't get it.
I don't understand how you can take Bertrand Russell seriously.
Am I in a vacuum here?
Am I the only one who has actually read what he wrote?

>>7132293
???
Sounds more like "socially liberal" than the overly vague "liberal", which is any thing from Ronald Reagan and Ayn Rand to Felicia Day and Laurie Penny.

>>7132293
Nice.

>>7132265
Weren't you going to read Ada,
not watch Kubrick's Lolita?

>>7132132
>Russell fanboys start posting
>Schmetterling starts posting
>Mein Antlitz dabei